Letter: Vandals

Richard MacIndoe
Pueblo

Published: October 6, 2013;Last modified: October 6, 2013 05:00AM

During a period when Democrats had majorities in both houses of Congress and a Democrat in the White House, the Affordable Care Act was passed into law using the normal legislative process of negotiation and compromise.

Now that the Republicans control the House of Representatives but neither the Senate nor the White House, the vandals in Congress who despise the ACA want it repealed, but lack the votes to do so the traditional way.

Therefore, instead of using the legislative process, they have resorted to extortion, threatening to both shut down the government and refuse to raise the debt ceiling, wreaking untold damage to our economy.

Call me old-fashioned, but if the Republicans wanted to act like responsible adults, they would work toward having majorities in both houses of Congress and electing a Republican president, at which time they could repeal the ACA and institute their proposals for health care.

Oh, wait, they don’t have any health care plan, they just want to destroy what a previous Congress legislated.